We are recruiting a Practice Nurse to join our friendly professional team to provide primary care services for Taurus Healthcare.
We are looking for an experienced Practice Nurse with a passion for providing excellent nursing care to deliver general practice nursing services including chronic disease management, cervical cytology, contraception, wound care and supervision of HCAs and phlebotomists.
*Updated hourly rate - £22.69 to £24.90 per hour*
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Main duties of the job
* Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care to meet the care needs of patients.
* Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care around diet, exercise, alcohol, smoking cessation.
* Manage patients presenting with wounds including removal of sutures and clips.
* Ensuring safe vaccine and cold chain storage.
* Administering routine injections such as B12 and decapeptyl as prescribed by medical prescriber.
* Undertake cervical cytology screening on those who are eligible in line with national guidelines following local procedures.
* Give women advice on all forms of contraception aiding them to make an informed choice.
* Provide sexual health assessment, advice and direct to appropriate testing, performing swabs if necessary.
* To perform venepuncture and NPT.
* To provide Hypertension checks, liaising with GP when BP out of target.
* Identify, and manage patients at risk of developing a long-term condition.
* Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
* Utilise EMIS web templates to record clinical data.
About us
Taurus Healthcare was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out of hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patients home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible.
At Taurus Healthcare we strive to create a diverse, inclusive workplace, and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds including those from Military Veterans and family members of serving personnel.
Job responsibilities
Main Responsibilities
* Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care to meet the care needs of patients.
* Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care around diet, exercise, alcohol, smoking cessation.
* Manage patients presenting with wounds including removal of sutures and clips.
* Ensuring safe vaccine and cold chain storage.
* Administering routine injections such as B12 and decapeptyl as prescribed by medical prescriber.
* Undertake cervical cytology screening on those who are eligible in line with national guidelines following local procedures.
* Give women advice on all forms of contraception aiding them to make an informed choice.
* Provide sexual health assessment, advice and direct to appropriate testing, performing swabs if necessary.
* To perform venepuncture and NPT.
* To provide Hypertension checks, liaising with GP when BP out of target.
* Identify, and manage patients at risk of developing a long-term condition.
* Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
* Utilise EMIS web templates to record clinical data.
* Sign post individuals to relevant organisations.
* Supervise and support Health Care Assistants and phlebotomists in the clinical area you are working in.
* Accurately document nursing care to NMC standards.
* Provide and document care using EMIS templates in line with NICE guidance, local policies and QOF requirements.
* Support placements of pre/post registration students and people on work experience.
* Be able to manage own time, workload and resources effectively.
* Assists in the collection of Taurus specific outcome data.
* To carry any other appropriate duties as required.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities or Attributes
* Organised, friendly, approachable, polite and empathetic.
* Adaptable and comfortable dealing with changing priorities and be a team player.
* Work a flexible pattern of evenings, weekends, bank holidays and cover.
Skills
* Work autonomously and collaboratively, recognising when referrals are required.
* Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
* IT skills - computer and keyboard literate.
* Time management and the ability to work to deadlines.
* Ability to prioritise workload.
* Relay clinical information and maintain accurate, comprehensive consultation records in line with NMC requirements.
Qualifications
* RGN - current NMC registration with minimum 6 months' experience in primary care practice nursing.
* A demonstrable commitment to professional development.
* Cervical cytology practitioner.
* In date CPR training (within 18 months).
* Recent mandatory training in immunisations (HPA standard).
* Safeguarding adult and children level 3.
* Contraception and sexual health qualification/training.
* Adult and paediatric asthma qualification.
Experience
* Experience of working in primary care.
* Experience of nurse-led chronic disease management clinics.
* Experience of working in a multi-professional environment.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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